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METEOROLOGY.
Mr. James Glaisher, F.R.S., in his report to the RegistrarGeneral,
remarks that the first eighteen days of January were
very cold, with frequent falls of snow, the mean daily deficiency
of temperature being 50.3, and that during the latter part of the
month there was an average excess of 3°.8 of daily temperature.
In February the weather was cold and dry, with sharp frosts
-at night between the 6th and 18th. The temperature during
the first five days, and from the 19th to the 25th, was above the
average, on ail other days it was below.
In March the weather was very cold till the 21st, and during
nine days of that period it was 10½° below the average, after
that date the weather was milder. The mean temperature of
the month was 4° below the average of 46 years.
The mean temperature of the quarter was 37°.6 in London.
The rainfall, which in each month was below the average, was
3.22 inches
Vestry Hall, Paddington.
June, 1887.